all for us toward the rosy
West. Well, a time _may_ come, and when it does, of a verity the
Hermitage shall become well known to 'Esquire CONTINENTAL.'

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A CORRESPONDENT, whose style, by the way, is quaint enough to be printed
with black-letter, thus favors us with his protest against certain
merely 'bread-and-butter' notions of Woman:

I object to the current newspaper 'Advice for Girls.' A woman may
know how to cook, sweep, sew, tend babies; but is _this_ what a
young man--Spanish, _virgen_--most looks, or cares for, or thinks
of, when he seeks life-companionship--a Somebody to get him dinner,
tidy his room, fasten his shirt-buttons, and bear him children?
'Tis not for spread tables, kept house, mended clothes, nor
pleasure, that the young man's soul thirsts. For sympathy, for
love, for the object of his manliness, for its complement, for his
wife--and not a servant, nor a mistress.

He does indeed holily choose the mother of their little ones, but
newspaper-notice hints nothing of that; it teaches bodily, not
spiritually, and simply trains up a female able to bear offspring
of healthy flesh.

However, the husband requires a lover fit to join with him in
spirit also, for the total benefit of posterity.

The education which best suits a woman, then, is it carnal or
soulful? to make a kitchen-drudge or a soft-eyed maiden? a prudent
housewife or a thoughtful heartsweet? 'a special breeder' (POPE) or
a trusted bosomer? Cattle and machinery are for this labor-saving.
The true end of woman is feminity. Therefore, if she is any
brighter and heartsomer for playing in the fields, any more pensive
and sober for meditating there, who shall deny her God's free air
and sunshine?

If she is more delicate and softer to handle the light embroidery,
or plan the curious patchwork, who shall restrict her busy
ingenuity to garments of _wear_--coarse jackets, trowsers, shirts?

If she is more earnest and devoted for loving and suffering through
a romance, who shall hinder from reading and writing, or limit the
one to _Pilgrim's Progress_, the other to a letter, or confine her
pity to street-beggars, for whom alms-giving is act of charity not
more than tears are for imagined woes?

If she is more winning and tender by dwelling with